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Hello again all, thanks for all your comments regarding this week’s Inside Sport, a selection of them are published .

What a week it was! There was a lot of congratulation and support for and on the back of our interviews with them but the overwhelming public response has been to our story on a potential ‘GB’ (or ‘UK’) .

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Now that England has announced , here at we’re getting a bit ahead of ourselves and planning where we’re going to watch all the games. We’d like your suggestions as to where the best grounds in England are.

There are some ground rules. apparently like to have a maximum of 12 stadia hosting any particular World Cup. Each venue must hold at least 40,000 fans. And they prefer only one city to have more than one ground.

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The countdown clock continues to tick as we get ever closer to this year's show on 9 December (1900 GMT, ´óÏó´«Ã½ One).

One big ´óÏó´«Ã½ vote has been causing a bit of stir this week with the controversial exit of our very own Gabby Logan (one of the best dancers in the competition!) from

And you can be sure over the next few weeks there'll be acres of newspaper coverage and endless pub debates over who should win the prestigious Sports Personality award for 2007.

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For a man , International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge is remarkably calm.

Controversy is never far away from the Olympic Games - it's the nature of the beast - but Rogge seems to take it all in his stride.

With human rights groups calling for a , does he regret giving the Games to China? Not a bit of it.

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Hi everyone, I'm Ron Chakraborty, one of the Assistant Editors in ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV Sport, helping put together everything from Six Nations to Inside Sport to Wimbledon to, well, ...

There are many culture shocks you have to get used to when covering , but nothing can prepare you for the mayhem of an NFL locker room after a match.

After a 10-minute 'cool down' period, the NFL allows the media into the players' dressing rooms.

You can imagine the chaos that ensues, as was the case following the at Wembley.

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I have to admit, it's not been easy being ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV's rugby union editor these past six weeks.

While our colleagues in Radio 5 and on the have played their part in a great Rugby World Cup tournament, me and my team have felt a bit like - sitting on the sidelines trying not to get too grumpy or critical, but just wishing we were out there.

Fortunately for me, as rugby league editor too, I've had the distraction of a fabulous engage play-off series with highlights on the ´óÏó´«Ã½. In fact I watched England beat France in a hospitality suite at Old Trafford after . But I've also watched every game of the sixth .

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Until Theo Walcott helped inspire Arsenal to , and then Manchester United, Chelsea and Rangers did well too, it had been an unequivocally for British sport.

There were plenty of external factors we could blame: a and an errant Spanish referee in Moscow, a myopic German called Knut who missed the blatant upending of McFadden , the intervention of that all-important Australian armchair viewer in Paris, and an unholy alliance of a malfunctioning gearbox and .

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Hi everyone, thanks for your comments again, many of them were about England's magnificent effort in reaching the and also the subsequent debate over .

It seems odd to many people that the man who took his team to such success shouldn't be given a new contract straightaway.

For others, the rugby authorities are doing the right thing to have a process, a review and wait to decide the future of the coach - and players. On , we knew the minute England reached the final that, win or lose, we would want to try and get some of the boys into the studio to talk to Gabby.

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I'm Michael Cole and I'm the editor of live athletics.

The Great North Run normally signals the end of a pretty sustained period of coverage on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV, but following Paula Radcliffe's decision to take part in the New York Marathon we have an addition to our usual schedule. We'll be showing live coverage of both the men's and women's races on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO on Sunday 4 November.

By and large the plans for what is covered on TV are made well in advance. Long term rights contracts, negotiations with ´óÏó´«Ã½ ONE and TWO for airtime as well as the relatively high cost of delivering TV coverage mean that, on the whole, TV does not react with the same speed and news agenda as ´óÏó´«Ã½ radio sport or the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sport website.

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When I last blogged about our coverage of Lewis Hamilton back in June, none of us probably expected that come the dark days of autumn we would be preparing for the weekend when this sensation of British sport might be crowned world champion in his rookie year, at the end of what has been called the most thrilling F1 championship of all time.

And if someone had told any of us back then that England's rugby union team, who at that time had suffered 14 defeats in their most recent 19 Tests, would on the same weekend be preparing for a , surely no-one would have thought it possible.

But that's the nature of sport, and that's why we find ourselves now preparing for one of the biggest sporting weekends this country has witnessed in years.

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Hello and thanks for the comments this week to .

As ever, a selection of your points and questions are published . So, a few answers for you.

Some of you have asked for more featured, I agree Gaelic football and hurling are excellent games and I used to watch a lot of them when I lived in Northern Ireland for a year back in the ‘80s. Unfortunately, I'm not sure they’re broadly popular enough to put on Inside Sport.

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This Wednesday sees a potentially crucial set of . All four UK international sides .

Scotland's huge game in Georgia is live on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland and UK-wide on ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO with a 6pm kick-off. Except for Freeview viewers in Wales (don't shoot the messenger - I don't understand all the technical or scheduling details either).

Then, later, the game Northern Ireland cannot afford to lose in Sweden, and the now largely academic San Marino v Wales encounter are live in both Northern Ireland and Wales. They are also via the red button, across the UK.

This is the first time we've been able to offer (most) ´óÏó´«Ã½ viewers a choice of three football matches at once. It's almost like a Wimbledon-style digital options-fest in October.

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There’s good news, I hope, for Rob Mannel. Rob and others have posted on this site asking for news about because our contract expired earlier this year.

Well, we’re delighted to say that we’ve just signed a new agreement with , and it means The Masters will remain on ´óÏó´«Ã½ television, radio and online for a further three years.

The ‘three years’ is significant. It’s the first time we’ve had this length of contract with our transatlantic friends in Augusta, because they’ve tended to arrange their broadcasting deals one year at a time. That’s been the general pattern since we started our live broadcasts more than 20 years ago.

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You may have noticed in my last blog entry (On radio, on TV, online) that I didn't mention the as one of our landmarks. Some of you promptly raised questions about its future - which is the beauty of blogs - so I now want to come clean.

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While , James Toseland claimed the in Magny-Cours last weekend to add to the title he won in 2004.

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From Thursday to Sunday this week 16 of the world’s finest golfers are set to battle it out for the richest prize in golf, the £1m cheque on offer for the winner of the at Wentworth.

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Hello again, everybody.

Thanks for all your comments, questions and the like this week. Some good points raised on , , more rugby league, and Ultimate Fighting. Don't forget, we publish a selction of them .

And for those asking about how sports news stories work across all media at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ (including and this website), Roger Mosey's latest blog covers just that!

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No broadcaster these days can have a monopoly of sports rights. The UK market is a healthily competitive one - and there are plenty of events covered well by , and . This autumn ITV have the and , which are covered by us on radio and online. Next year, the and Euro 2008 in addition to our regular schedule so the cycle of even years, when we have our biggest TV events, and odd years, when we don't, will continue.

We recognised some time ago that this can give the effect of feast or famine. Next week we have on ´óÏó´«Ã½ ONE with , followed a few days later by - whereas last week it was, well, . Nothing wrong with that, and more than a million people watched it on Saturday afternoon, but sports fans expect more these days - so that's what we're trying to deliver.

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Every now and then, somebody will write in hankering after the good old days. That golden age and the viewer was guaranteed a long edit of both. None of this jumping around eight different games and fancy-dan , no MOTD repeat or Sunday football - just Motty at one 3pm kick-off, Barry Davies at another, Jimmy Hill and Bob Wilson in the studio, Goal of the Month nine times a season, thank you and goodnight.

Well, if you're nostalgic for that format, then this Saturday night, for one week only, you've got it. Motty will even be at Villa Park, though the other names have changed.

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Can anyone remember a time when there was just one top flight football match kicking off at 3pm on a Saturday?

That is the situation this coming weekend in thewhen Aston Villa v West Ham will be the only match in the top division to be played at the traditional kick-off time. Manchester United play Wigan earlier in the day at 1245pm and no fewer than eight games switch to the Sunday.

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Thanks for all your feedback on . Don't forget we publish a selection of your comments, so feel free to contribute, either on this blog or our . Here are some answers to the points and questions you raised:

CYCLING
Could we do a feature about and his hopes for Olympic triumph? In the next run of Inside Sport we'll be doing a lot of Olympic items in the run up to , we'll put this idea in the pot we'll be looking to choose from.

BASKETBALL
For those that were wondering about our basketball debate, I think Buncey was trying to say he thinks, of all the American sports coming to London this autumn, is most likely to become Britain's fourth sport after football, rugby and cricket. And he was also talking about whether a big -style competition could ever happen in the UK.

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